Revising Life

'Provides a compelling argument for Plath’s revision of the painful parts of her life — the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother. . . . The reader will feel the tension in the poetry and the life.' CHOICE '[Examines] Plath’s twin goals of becoming a famous poet and a perfect mother. . . . This book’s main points are clearly and forcefully argued: that both poems and babies require 'struggle, pain, endless labor, and . . . fears of monstrous offspring'